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(21,046 posts)Hinduism and Buddhism. Hinduism goes back at least 10,000 years and Buddha lived 600 years before Jesus.
But then "Eastern religious cult" equals "Not Christianity, therefore BAD!!"
My idiot neighbor was in my house and saw my Medicine Buddha statue, held up her forearms in a cross to protect herself from the evil and said "BUDDHISM'S LIKE VOOOOOODOOOOOOOO!!!"
I have a bagua (Chinese feng shui mirror) on a tree outside to reflect her ignorance back to herself. And a six foot privacy fence.
I told her it was an ancient and dignified religion but she didn't hear me. All she knows is what some half-assed ignorant bible beatin' preacher tells her. She doesn't want to know anything.
And the guy across the street told me I was going to hell if I "keep meditating and worshiping Buddha". Had to set him straight about Buddha being an enlightened MAN, NOT a god.
His response, "Ohhhhhhh..."
He said his dad wouldn't let him watch the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in 1964 because they were "Communists". Seriously.
And that "Imagine" song by John Lennon is "the most atheistic, caahhhhmuhnistic song evah...."